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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

The first chart illustrates consumers’ use of digital health tools, showing that online health information and online provider reviews. But the big growth areas were for live video telemedicine, wearable tech, and digital health tracking.

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What exactly is HealthTech? What is the difference between Digital Health and HealthTech?

Lloyd Price

Health information technology (HIT): This refers to the use of information technology to store, manage, and analyze healthcare data. Examples include electronic health records (EHRs), clinical decision support systems, and population health management systems.

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Patient Portals 3.0: the future of patient engagement

Lloyd Price

One trend that is likely to continue is the integration of patient portals with electronic health record (EHR) systems. This will allow patients to access their medical records, test results, and other health information more easily, and enable healthcare providers to share information more effectively.

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How can junior clinicians prepare for the age of AI in medicine?

Lloyd Price

Clinicians need to be the ‘sherpas’ helping to find applications for AI where the outcome is clinically actionable, and where the health economics stack up. The other major bottleneck in health AI is the shortage of labelled training data.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A new study from Weber Shandwick and KRC asked a question that speaks to consumers’ trust and willingness to engage with different sources of health information. They are licensed, trained, and tested for service. Now, his forecast is mainstream.

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Shaping the future of health technologies

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Whilst the earliest electronic medical records (EMRs) were created over 40 years ago, we’ve only seen the mass shift in health information go from analogue to digital in the past 10 years. You can now search for health information online, simply by typing in your symptoms. Mobile health. Wearables .

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

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Including multiple options when it comes to learning how to become a telehealth specialist: A formal classroom training that is ATA accredited, check out these options: American Telemedicine Association , University of Arizona and University of California, Davis.